Experience with paints

[Soop]

About to begin painting the car soon (finally thank god).

My plan is to do it white with a clear in acrylic.

You know those ads in the trader that have acrylic white for like $50 for 4 litres. Is it any good ?

I was thinking of just buying that and cheap primer from there and then getting something like a KH clear coat. K&H seems reasonable quality and its like $50 for 4 litres of clear.

I'd just use the K&H white but I can't find it in 4 litre tins.

I want the paint to look decent and last a while but at the same time I obviously wanna keep costs reasonable.

Anyone used these paints ?

Also, mr dohc, I put my bonnet back on. No more flakey shitty blue paint under there and the engine bay is a little cleaner and shinier, resprayed in black. Woo ! Looks a bit better now. Presentable at least !

Once I get home from work I'm going to start putting my seats in. Welding in this heat is so shit though.

[GEm1ma has xplod gea]

hey yeh that is from henly paint supplies or whatever, round near wast lakes, yeh i rung em up they said it's the cheapest quality and u get what u pay for, there is another better brand (thicker) 4 90 bucks, but now i'm doin mine red and usein protec paint - $184.40 for 4litress of the red and $50.34 for 4litres of clear, don't now how much the thinners would b, under 70 bux i would gather. i have used motospray primer and pirmer/putty, it's okayish.

chris...

[TGNVD247]

u wont need 4 litres of clear, one should just about do it

[tunnel vision]

spent a bit of time in the paint supply game. Use a good primer "dulux, glasuruit " good preperation before applying colour will make a BIG difference.. 2-3lts of colour should be more than enough (small car) White is a group 1 colour(cheapest) red group 3 (dearest) hope this helps

[tunnel vision]

K&H is good stuff from my experience.